Hi Jan

Jan Vilhuber wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm trying to play some HD content recorded with mythtv, and it's  
> mpeg-ts, if I see things correctly. Based on a packet trace, I can  
> see mvpmc reading the file from the myth server (lots of traffic),  
> but the screen remains blank (green, perhaps).

Same here.  It probably doesn't work as the band width is too much for 
the MediaMVP box.  For example, I can play back 480 line resolution (old 
shows) recorded by my MythTV box using an ATSC tuner.  But I can not 
play back 720 or 1080 line resolution programming.  Note, we have always 
had problems w/synchronizing digital audio in mvpmc - so, even though I 
can play back the 480 line programming, we still haven't figured out the 
audio synchronization problem.

> I understand that this MAY indicate that mvpmc does not understand  
> the format (is mpeg-ts i.e. HD mpeg2?). I have VLC set up as a  
> server, and if I try to play an avi file from nfs, it goes to VLC and  
> has it transcode it successfully (very cool feature, that!!).

This is a pain when using MythTV (or actually anything) - but people 
have had success renaming their mpge's to .avi files.  Then, mvpmc will 
think is can not decode the programming and will ask to have it 
transcoded.

Ideally, I wish there was a way for the MythTV backend to identify the 
capabilities of it's clients and act accordingly.  This will be more 
true in the future as more of us turn up ATSC and QUAM MythTV boxes but 
still have NTSC type clients.

> So: How can I get mvpmc to go to VLC to transcode the HD content to  
> something it can display? I don't really care if the OUTPUT is HD  
> (which it can't be anyway.. neither the mvp nor my TV do HD  
> natively), but I'd like to at least SEE it.

You can probably search this and the other mvpmc mail list for a thread 
on the subject.  I would think it would be worth it if your set is good 
enough to see the difference between over the air NTSC and a DVD.  Use 
the s-video output to reduce artifacts encountered by your set trying to 
separate color and brightness (this goes w/o saying for any video source).

> Any help or suggestions? I've tried the latest firmware from  
> yesterday (dongle.bin.mvpmc-20070424).
> 
> jan



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